Album Review

Cypress Hill Rise Up

Release Date: April 06, 2010
Label: Priority/EMI

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It Ain't Nothin' (feat. Young De) Produced by B-Real for Audio Hustlaz
Light It Up Produced by Pete Rock for Chocolate Boy Wonda Productions
Rise Up (feat. Tom Morello) Produced by: Tom Morello and B-Real for Audio Hustlaz
Get It Anyway Produced by: Jim Jonsin
Pass The Dutch (feat. Evidence and Alchemist) Produced by: DjMuggs & DJ Khalil for Soul Assass
Bang Bang Produced by: B-Real for Audio Hustlaz
K.U.S.H Produced by: Sick Jacken and B-Real for Audio Hustlaz
Get 'Em Up Produced by: B-Real for Audio Hustlaz
Carry Me Away (feat. Mike Shinoda) Produced by: Mike Shinoda
Trouble Seeker (feat. Daron Malakian) Produced by: Daron Malakian
Day Destroys the Night featuring Everlast Produced by: DJ Muggs & DJ Khalil for Soul Assassins
I Unlimited Produced by: B-Real for Audio Hustlaz
Armed & Dangerous Produced by: Jake One and B-Real for Audio Hustlaz
Shut 'Em Down (feat. Tom Morello) Produced by: Tom Morello and B-Real for Audio Hustlaz
Armada Latina (feat. Marc Anthony and Pitbull) Produced by: Jim Jonsin

Latin Rap pioneers/cannabis enthusiasts Cypress Hill were, to quote Steve Zissou, not at their best this past decade. Nonetheless, one of the more essential hip-hop acts of the mid-90s will be dropping Rise Up, Cypress Hill's first album since 2004's Till Death Do Us Part on April 6. Rise Up will also be the band's first album since finishing their contract with Sony, and will be released on Priority Records on EMI via an enterprising label head known as Snoop Dogg.

Whereas Till Death Do Us Part featured an awkward Clash sample and a collaboration with Rancid's Tim Armstrong, Rise Up will feature collaborations with former Rage Against The Machine/ Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello. Earlier reports have also attached Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda and the increasingly bizarre session man Slash.

Abstract by Ethan Stanislawski

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